verity
English
/ˈvɛɹɪti/
noun
Definitions
- (archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
- A true statement; an established doctrine.
Etymology
Borrowed from verité borrowed from Middle French verité derived from Old French verité derived from Latin vēritās root from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁- (true, benevolent, blow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weh₁-
Gloss
true, benevolent, blow
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- inverity English
- unaverred English
- unverified English
- veridical English
- verifiable English
- verification English
- verify English
- verisimilar English
- verisimilitude English
- veritably English
- veritas English
- voir dire English
- *advērāre Latin
- verac- Latin
- verifico Latin
- veritabilis Latin
- verus Latin
- vēritās Latin
- vēritās, vēritātem, veritas Latin
- vēritātem Latin
- vēritātem, vēritās Latin
- vērāx Latin
- contrevérité French
- véritable French
- vérité French
- *weh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *weh₁ros Proto-Indo-European
- *lugô Proto-Germanic
- *wēingan- Proto-Germanic
- wǣrloga Old English
- averrement Old French
- verdit Old French
- verité Old French
- véthité Norman
- vërtetë Albanian
- verité Middle French
- verité xno
- verite Haitian, Haitian Creole
- berdade Mirandese